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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Walker doesn't feel ANY sense of shame!

...................................................................................................................................................................COMMENTS:* The noise inside my head that I can not stop is, apparently, screaming coming from my dying sanity. Walker is a disgrace of a Human Being.* Holy jumping Jebus fucking Christ! Why aren't Wisconsinites storming the capitol building and the residence of this son of a bitch, torches and pitchforks at the fore? I cannot believe this, and I've stayed in Wisconsin a few times and marveled at the support this dickhead Walker has in the rural areas. I'll remind those retrograde bastards up there in the northland that they elected a man whose new election rules preclude votes from Iwo Jima veterans, and I'll do it loudly and clearly at every possible occasion. See what they fucking think about that.... * They have, repeatedly. It made no difference whatsoever. Walker and his buds rampage on.* ...C'mon, Charles. Can you really believe these people have any sense of shame?* It is well to remember that it's not just corruption and greed that harm us, sheer incompetentcy plays a major role too.* Republicans like Scott Walker and his cabal are a disgrace to all good thinking Americans. The lesson is to never vote Republican.
...................................................................................................................................................................A 90-Year-Old Iwo Jima Veteran Couldn't Vote in Scott Walker's WisconsinThis should be a message to the DNC. Will Debbie Wasserman Schulz hear it?
By Charles P. Pierce, February 25, 2016

Life's tough and getting tougher out in that Midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin, where goggle-eyed homunculus Scott Walker remains the managing director. Now, it seems casting your ballot in a state election has become harder than surviving the slog up Mount Suribachi was.

In her letter, Bradley said her uncle had fought at Iwo Jima, the bloody World War II battle that was immortalized in a photo of the U.S. flag being raised on the tiny Pacific island. Tuesday marked the 71st anniversary of the 1945 flag raising. Bradley's uncle, Leo Olson of Reedsburg, tried to use his veterans ID card to vote in last week's primary for a seat on the state Supreme Court, but that form of identification can't be used under the state's voter ID law. Olson does not have a driver's license. That could soon change because of legislation the state Senate is to take up next month. Even if approved, it may not be in place for the April 5 election, when voters will decide the state Supreme Court race and cast ballots in the presidential primaries. "He considers voting part of his patriotic duty," Bradley wrote to Walker. "Yet, last week this proud patriot of 90 years of age was embarrassed and confused when he went to the polls and was denied his right to vote. Then he presented his veterans administration card with his picture on it, he was told that the card was not listed as 'acceptable' proof of his identity. He responded: 'You mean veterans can't vote?'"

I guarantee you that there are hundreds of examples of things like this out there. Veterans. Grandparents. Honor students. Cops. Nurses. Each one of them could be used to shame the people who are writing and passing voter-suppression laws all over the United States. These examples could provide an endless stream of campaign commercials that would have the advantage of actually being true. However, this would require competent, forward-thinking leadership at the Democratic National Committee which is, at the moment, being run by someone whose primary concentration apparently is ensuring herself good seats at the 2017 inauguration.
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